First off, Happy New Year's to you all. I hope you have a healthy & happy & coin-laden 2020. At the end of 2019 I chanced on something out of...
First off, Merry Christmas to all. I hope you are all having a jolly time. As for me, I've been eating too much and teasing my nephews about...
While researching the Byzantine bronzes that come my way, I kept coming across online references to the Byzantine shops at Sardis. Finally I...
This will be a let down compared to all those wonderful coins from the 2019 "best of's" everybody is posting. But I believe us bottom-feeders...
Sometimes I think ancient countermark collecting is the Dark Side of the Dark Side. Which is to say I'm trying to attribute a small batch of...
I've been working through a lot of unattributed countermarked ancients (rather unsuccessfully) and found this one which I thought was kind of...
I am puzzled by this. From the inscriptions and design, it appears to be a Seleucid tetradrachm of Antiochos X. It is too light and the wrong...
I recently came across an interesting book called Out of the Past, The Istanbul Grand Bazaar by Burton Y. Berry (Arco Publishing Co., 1977). Mr....
Just got a new Antoninus Pius dupondius yesterday and I figured attribution would be pretty simple. After a couple hours and a lot of confusion,...
I know there's been several threads discussing the problem assigning denominations to empress AEs. In a nutshell, the only way to tell the...
Just got this new countermark I wanted to share. A small AE from Akmoneia, Phrygia issued for Nero by a husband and wife Archon team, strangely...
I thought this would be easy, but I am having trouble figuring out this small Greek (presumably) AE. Poor condition is not helping matters, but I...
Another addition to my countermark collection, I bought this one without any idea what it was - eBay seller said it was Philip I from Syria. But...
Just got in an unattributed eBay bronze that I spent a couple hours trying to figure out. Many wrong paths, but it was fun. These Samaria,...
This one really has me stumped. I am pretty sure it is Elagabalus or Caracalla. Most of the obverse legend is visible and the portrait seems to...
I've been staring at these a lot. And staring at a lot of coins online, and I am growing more confused. Can anybody provide information on...
I just got a batch of el-cheapo Byzantine coppers yesterday that made me as happy as a clam (clam emoji?) despite some cosmetic issues. The one...
A recent undescribed lot of Roman AEs landed me this little one. It is an AE from Commodus - you have to trust me - the obverse legend is very...
I recently bought an undescribed lot of Greek AEs - 9 of them. I figured out 7 of them after a lot of random Google Image searches, ransacking...
I "accidentally" got this small, crusty silver coin that I think I figured out. Maybe. It seems to be a silver "bugne" issued by Metz by Robert...
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